My day starts around 5:30 every morning with the first of three cups of “Caldwell” coffee, along with a small red-foiled square of “Dove” chocolate (maybe two), while curled up in my reading chair with my self-help books (and I still need a lot of help!) Oh, and a novel—a […]
Beth Caldwell – The View From Here
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The glee was stacked as high as the pancakes and syrup they poked in around my table that morning before the hunt began. Goals were shared about egg collection; theories on where to look cooked up like the crispy pieces of bacon that followed the forks full of pancake down […]
American novelist James Paterson took the road less travelled when he began to write books in the mid-70’s. After reading “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman,” Paterson decided to break all the rules about how he crafted the books he wrote. He embraced “full-throttle freedom,” learned to trust […]
Every day I have choice to make. Happy. Not happy. The happiness balance is tedious, constant work. Sometimes I do it well; sometimes I do appallingly. Today was one of those “not-do-it-so-well” days. My Monday got turned around like the weather and I found myself in the linger of thoughts […]
Clearly the long tooth of winter needs to go the dentist and have a root canal. I will gladly pay the bill. I hate to admit it but I’ve imagined slipping the dentist an extra $50 bucks to forgo Novocaine when removing said long tooth—just to emphasize how much of […]
Technology. Entertainment. Design. In short, “TED.” I’ve been a fan of TED for years. Some of the greatest lessons I’ve learned have been from TED, a global platform of speakers who share their ideas—be they funny, courageous, ingenious, inspiring, or informative—in talks of 18 minutes or less. There are more […]
George Home once said, “Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue.” Obviously he never spent a long, cold winter cooped up in this part of the country awaiting signs of spring. I don’t know about you but my patience is pooped […]
We were sitting at the kitchen table shelling peanuts and enjoying the salty taste, sipping on a “London Porter,” and reviewing the day’s successes after a pleasant afternoon of ice-fishing when he said, “The next time we go ice-fishing, I think we should go for trout.” My heart leapt. I […]
“I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.” The late great Duke Ellington had the right idea. Sadly, I can pout with the best of them, but I cannot read, write, nor play a lick of music. When I pout, all my energy goes into […]
Ice fishing. I tried it for the first time two weekends ago, and all I’ve thought about since is how much fun I had and “When can we go again?” Where have I been all my life that I didn’t try ice fishing until now? I live in Northwestern Ontario […]
Just the other day, during a quiet moment on the drive home from a wonderful day of snowshoeing, my good friend gently said to me, “And you have an anniversary coming up?” I turned my head in his direction with a curious stare of pause. “An anniversary? No. No anniversary,” […]
What if I had turned left in the hallway at the college I was attending in the fall of 1980? What if I had turned left and found a lounge chair in a window vestibule, and plopped myself there during a cancelled class instead of going to the cafeteria for […]
